The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1887-02-24
What Of The Situation?
SHALL WE Fool ANY LONGER WITH
THE DoGGERY CURSE?

For many years system of low-down
dogggeries has cursed the town of Jack
son, and sown seeds of death and ruin in
this community. Some fourteen, we be-
lieve, still remain to tell the story of the
Devils work in this place. These dogge-
ries have cost the people thousands of
dollars in taxes not to say anything about
the distress and misery caused by the
dens. They have disgraced the town,
ruined boys, dragged men down far below
every vestige of manhood, and broken the
hearts of women; the have tarnished the
name of the town as seat of culture and
uprightness, and sent forth the impress
sion that there obtained here an indiffer-
ence as to the lawlessness that abounded
in the community; the town was former
ly the scene of riOtous drunkenness and
boisterous revelry; altogether, Jackson
has been terribly cursed by this horrible
business.
For few years back the people have
been trying to curtail the power and in
fiuence of this Drink Demon, in various
ways. Religious teaching and Christian
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strong right arm and ready club of Mar
shal Owens did a good part; the boys
were taught the bad character of the dog
gerry and it's influence and with teaching,
and praying, and enforcing the law to
some extent-though not half enough
the doggery business has been made con-
temptible in Jackson, and a man calling
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ing into one of these dens. In this COM
munity there is a wondrously strong tenn
perance sentiment, a sentiment that will
not permit of any more foolishness upon
this vital question. We know that bot
tie of whisky upon doggery shelf eXerts
wonderful in1uence-but the people of
this community have gone far beyond a
point where such influence is felt. Every
thing that offers an improved condition
of affairs has been grasped by the people
of the community for the purpose of ad-
vancing, step by step, toward the utter
annihilation of this Internal business.
While.goodEmen and women have worked
and prayed, the politician has winked
from both eyes and while patting the
Christian people upon the back upon the
one hand, would grasp the murderous paw
of the Devils Agent with the other. But
that kind of work is about done for, espe-
aially in this community. 1t is duty
that every good citizen owes to his fam
lily, his God and himself, to see that no
man who opposes the home and takes the
part of the doggery, ever gets into pub
lie Office. This is strong language, but it
is sound, Christian doctrine, and first-rate
Republicanism. The great Republican
party has always been the friend of the
oppressed and the party to lift up the
fallen, and exalt manhood. Anything
which has tendency to debase manhood
and outrage public morals, is unworthy
the name of Republicanism, and any man
advocating any such thing would be fool
hardy to put himself forward for official
position.
When the Dow Law was declared con-
stitutional by the Supreme Court of Ohio,
the citizens of Jackson determined to
take the step towards temperance made
possible under the Dow Law. Here is
large number of dens enticing young boys
to estruction-veritable pits, hot-beds of
hopeless despair, and reeking with dam
nation; caves of sin, where the imps of
perdition deal out poison to old men,
young men, drunk men, and boys-all
who may be induced to come; recesses of
horror, where the Devil glares through
the puffy, besotted eyes of his child who
turns the faucet; harbors of demoniac
spirits, where righteousness is cursed, and
where hell reigns supreme; butcher-shops
where the hearts of suffering and starv-
ing wives and children are torn out and
made a jest for the drunken orgie; pawn
shops, where the clothing torn from the
backs of helpless infants may be bartered
for poison to destroy men; hot-beds, from
which spring upas trees that spread their
deadly branches over the entire commu-
nifty; holes of horror, where the imp of
sin will laugh in the face Of the poor fel-
low, as he takes his last nickel, and kicks
him out with the injunction TO go home
to his starving family until he sobers up;
danger-reefs upon life's sea, from which
the heart turns with sickening horror;
Shiny and slippery homes of bloated and
lazy brutes whose only hope of living in
their present state, is by coaxing some
unsuspecting creature into their dens;
trap-doors to perdition, through which
thousands of good men have gone to end
less woe, and through which many are
going now; cesspools of woe, into which